Since our founding in 1923 as Alberta's first university-based school of nursing, the Faculty of Nursing's aspirations and actions have been guided by core values drawn from the discipline of Nursing, the University community, and Canadian society.

Our faculty has well over 18,000 living alumni, and we are incredibly proud of the impact they have made on the profession of nursing in Canada and around the world. Many alumni continue to be involved with their alma mater by volunteering and providing generous financial support.

Nursing School Transfer

If you would like to transfer from another Nursing program in Canada, you may do so by completing the same application process as all UofA applicants, and supplying the requested documents by the applicable document deadline. Students also must meet the required postsecondary Admission Grade Point Average (AGPA) for the year they are applying in order to receive admission.

Once the Faculty has all your documents, a comparison of your education will be made. To help this process, you will likely also need to submit course outlines for your previous Nursing program. Because of the level of assessment that needs to be done, admission for transfer students will take longer and it can be expected that an admission decision might not be received until August.

Bachelor degrees in Nursing across Canada are similar in terms of the overall content of the full degree because of the guidelines that programs are required to follow in the education of Registered Nurses. However, every school packages the content of that education differently over the years of study and therefore it is difficult to piece together the content from one year at one school to the same year of another school. As such, you may or may not transfer into the same year in the UofA's Nursing program as you were in your previous Nursing program, depending on how differently the two programs are structured.